Luke 11:49

"For this reason also the Wisdom of God has said, `I will send Prophets and Apostles to them, of whom they will kill some and persecute others,'

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

In Context

48It follows that you bear testimony to the actions of your forefathers and that you fully approve thereof. They slew, you build.

50so that the blood of all the Prophets, that is being shed from the creation of the world onwards, may be required from the present generation.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:6and the rest seized the king's servants, maltreated them, and murdered them.

Luke 21:16You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.

John 16:2You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

Acts 7:57Upon this, with a loud outcry they stopped their ears, rushed upon Stephen in a body,

Acts 9:1Now Saul, whose every breath was a threat of destruction for the disciples of the Lord,

Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54

Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →

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